A long-held theory about the earliest migration to the Americas is under fresh scientific fire. For years, many believed that the First Peoples came from Japan, tracing their ancestry to the Jomon, a ...

The new evidence suggests the ancient skeleton is closely related to members of a Washington state tribe. The findings are likely to rekindle an... DNA Confirms Kennewick Man's Genetic Ties To Native ...

A new study from the NIH’s All of Us program is shaking up long-held assumptions by revealing that genetic ancestry rarely aligns with racial labels — and that the interplay between biology and ...

Led by Chelsey Geralda Armstrong, an assistant professor in Simon Fraser University's (SFU) Department of Indigenous Studies, the innovative study was recently published in the Proceedings of the ...

Dr. David Penney, National Museum of the American Indian, provides some opening comments for the symposium's second panel, "Genomics & Ancestry: Ethics, Origins, and Policy." "A Spectrum of ...